I doubt it. In fact, a clever hacker could figure out who has paid for what qos, and use it to give attacking traffic high priority. It adds another variable; it doesn't present a solution. On 7/2/2001 at 07:15:08 -0700, Roeland Meyer said:
Yes, but my first question was wrt QoS. Would it do any good?
-----Original Message----- From: Roland Dobbins [mailto:rdobbins@netmore.net] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:12 AM To: Roeland Meyer Cc: 'David Howe'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: GRC rides again...
Implementing fully-compliant sockets in XP is -not- a security issue.
There're LOTS of things wrong with the way Microsoft do things, but this simply isn't one of them. It's just amazing to me how credulous the public are when harangued by such an obvious snake-oil salesman.
Steve Gibson, a hero in his own mind.
Roeland Meyer wrote:
From: David Howe [mailto:DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:48 AM
... With yet another "update" to the DDos pages. http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm and I quote:
Unfortunately, today we see only the operation of blind
self-interest from
Microsoft and the Internet's ISP's
As I seem to recall several members of this list offered him help (and were rebuffed) perhaps they would like to comment? He seems increasingly lost in a fantasy world where everyone is out to get him....
The question I have is, would QoS would do any good here?
Other then that, he seems to be on a rant here. As much as I hate to say it, I almost agree with MSFT here. That said, Novell stated, decades ago, that MSFT never could understand network security. At the time, I agreed with Novell. Current observation is, that MSFT has yet to learn. Considering MSFT's workstation market-share, that is a problem for all of us.
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